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chaplaincies

  • plural
    of chaplaincy.
    chaplaincy
    noun
    the role, position, or tenure of a chaplain.

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Among them: rural reconstruction, the home and family life, chaplaincies among munition workers, youth, prisoners of war, the position of churches on the Continent, post-war reconstruction of Europe and the Far East.

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Last fall, Baptist Dr. Alfred Carpenter made a two-month, 33,000-mile tour of U.S. chaplaincies from Casablanca to Japan, Korea and the Pacific for the Navy.

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Most of the 43 work in such careers as teaching or chaplaincies and perform regular parish work only on temporary weekend assignments.

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Churches, schools and chaplaincies were some 3,000 priests short.

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The transfer is speedily concluded by chaplaincies being provided for the seculars, and the Recollects, taking possession of the new territory, immediately put six religious to work.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 41 of 55, 1691-1700 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Emma Helen Blair

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